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- Ghana is the world's second biggest cocoa exporter. Outdated plantations, pathogens in trees and plants as well as the ever-growing drought are driving cocoa farmers into desperation.
Sustainable and effective farming methods could be a game-changer in the fight against climate change - and help combat the rise in poverty. In Ghana, for example, cocoa farming is a mainstay, and cocoa is the country's most important export product. Some 1.6 million people work on cocoa farms but many of them live under precarious conditions.
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Thank you for reporting on sustainable agriculture.
Good stuff. Good to see a shift towards organic. We *all* need to be doing this, we're almost out of phosphorous!
I will pay you guys if you chose to make this a monthly thing by posting one video a month about African farmers or any African real issues like this . I love this so much .
There's channels like that on youtube.
Names ?
@@imgood6535 That's not a correction.
I would too
@@genekwagmyrsingh9433 sorry bro I'm trying to learn English and I am not a native English speaker .
this one home country, good reporting
Good going man. 👏👏👏
Where is the mention of 'sick trees endangering cocoa farms' like your video thumbnail says?
Good video otherwise.
The fruit eaten by ants was spreading or something
I picked on that too. Such titles are unnecessarily alarmist. Don’t make mountains of molehills @DW News
Over irrigation can actually be detrimental, causing salts to be drawn up from deep down, eventually making land infertile; this has happened in parts of Western Australia on grain growing land. It can be reversed but takes careful management over many years to allow those salts to be washed back down below the reach of root systems; until such time crop production is often impossible. It's far better to implement on-site rainwater harvesting techniques, of which there are several site specific types, that prevent erosion, allow H2O infiltration, avoiding the need for irrigation in the 1st place; something that's being done elsewhere in Africa, the Americas, China, Australia, New Zealand & many other places to great success. From an input point of view, this also greatly reduces associated costs & farmer's inputs of time, labour & need for fertilisers. Mulching & as is the case here, right amount of shade, can be crucial to eventual success.
In short: utilisation of nature based solutions stand the best chance of success, long term.
@DW News This was such a hard task, all the farmers wanted was an easy life but when times get tough I pray men like Orlando step to the fore and pull the younger men into an organised co-operative. Well done to the Germans and the Dutch for guiding innovation and sustainable farming in a key European goods supplier and labour supplier.
great video
Taking shade trees out for lack of water is nuts.
They should be pruned instead. Cocoa needs shade to stay moist and healthy.
Overall it looks like not the right climate for this crop.
However syntropic farming could still bring a miracle to this setup. No chemicals and No compost needed. There are very successful examples of syntropic cocoa farms in west Africa.
Not the right climate? It's the tropics. But climate change is bringing about less rain and shorter rainy season. This climate in west Africa grows about 80% of the world's Cocoa. An yes, generally, there is syntropic agric or agro forestry practiced on most cocoa farms.
@@dramaluvamens9313 Rainfall and humidity is part of what we call climate and water conserving irrigation can not substitute especially the handwatering with a can. Syntropic farming is a very sophisticated approach which requires new skills. Unfortunately it is often passed on in a down watered version. And what the film showed is a far cry from syntropy and spreading compost around the trees is an expensive crutch.
👍❤️🙏Great development news😊👏🔄👏
Why don't they just engage in permaculture / syntropic agriculture where they plant guilds of trees and plants that support one another, that help retain moisture, you chop the biomass trees down and let those compost down for nutrients for the rest, have more diverse crops etc?
Expanding those monocultures is an crop wipeout waiting to happen.
Wont work as well in droughts. Best bet is to dam up water like we do in Australian mountains, then pump into the plains. Dams everywhere.
Those trees and ones in similar species do much for the breathing air. They absolutely do. Let the talk tree grow. Maybe babysitter for some. Being in water. Yes shade is true. Thank you
Its interesting that shade would reduce the need for irrigation yet they say take down the tree and irrigate and blame climate. Bugs ate cocoa because of a squirrel and not thd end of pesticide use. .. efficiency is great but the narrative is greater.
I'd say do not prune all time, wearing out a tree too soon by blooming while it's time is it's knowledge. Only if too crowded should a tree be trimmed and reset to grow natural.
We can't even get rid of slavery
I'm trying to make a playlist with the knowledge you need to make chocolate without cocoa. please research alternatives!
Thought his father was a Cocoa farmer...now his son finds about how to grow Cocoa?
They probably weren't educated and didn't know all the various methods that someone that has studied agriculture does.
Sad news for the cocoa lovers!
Remember We Came this far from
Stone Age...
If nobody cares about us...we need take initiation from our side...
Remember there are no industries and no infrastructures...no technology's in the beginning...
Agriculture farming is the primary source for everything World wide in the beginning days...which leads the Humans to bring everything what we have now.
I think I have to respectfully disagree with some of the advice given by the Ghanaian Cocoa research advisor. The tree he said was taking all the H2O from the farmer's plot; whilst it will take a fair proportion of H2O, its root system will also help more H2O to infiltrate down into the soil, preventing runoff & erosion & form a crucial part of the below ground interconnected web of life, mainly linked by mycorhizzal fungi that (include) the farmer's cocoa trees. That interconnected web helps provide nutrients, defence against pests & diseases, allows for extra support to an ailing tree by one or more surrounding trees & other flora; this something only recently discovered by scientists, extent of the knowledge is in its infancy & research is still ongoing.
Additionally, monocultural production of any type, whether for food or timber, has & continues to have major negative environmental impacts. Which is why there is so much emphasis beginning to be placed on regenerative & permaculture design & practice in order to repair damages done to both soils & ecosystems in general, & for sustainable circular production systems that allow humanity to live within the planet's means of supporting life.
Everything you stated are good and proper suggestions. However, you are historically wrong. Mycorrhizae were discovered by a Polish botanist in 1879. However, this discovery was left dormant for about eighty years until a practical application was devised. The innoculant method was developed in Africa to trees bereft of mycorrhizae.
3:15 No to pesticides.
Not the chocolate trees!
Right?
@@mercedm87 I love chocolate...
"Medicinal"....
Figure out how to eat when the truckers completely stop moving product. Get the national guard trucks out to deliver rations.
Uber trucks will take over?
I love how for some reason truckers don't also starve to death in that scenario. Very embarassed that my religion consitutes the majority of North American trucking and is participating in this nonsense....
Sustainable cocoa farming in Ghana is endangered amid Russian planning to invade Ukraine any time still in this century 😂